Radio Stations Agrees To Pay Nigerian Artists For Air Play

The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) and Nigeria's largest broadcast network, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), has finally signed a landmark music copyright licensing agreement by which all FRCN stations across the country will immediately begin to pay royalties for the music and sound recordings they broadcast.

This had been the never ending fight of artists in Nigeria, and they seem to have won, or have they?
Let us be realistic, telling a radio station "a Nigerian" radio station for that matter, to pay people like Dbanj, 2face, or even Jim Iyke (He also has a song remember?), would not be as easy as it sounds. My best guess is that some stations would soon change their slogan to "Less Music and More Talk".
They would definately return back to the days of Sean Paul's "Get Busy", when all we heard on radio stations were foreign jams.
This agreement which was negotiated over the last one month ends more than three decades of rift between the Nigerian music industry and the government owned network.
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